Tuesday, August 15, 2017

"Man, they said we better, accentuate the positive Eliminate the negative Latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with Mister In-Between"Lyrics by Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3jdbFOidds

You know who ain't spendin' no time in the whale? Jim Acosta ain't. No he ain't, but I cain't say the same for anybody else.

We all have a responsibility to speak truth to power. The members of the press, that enjoy special protection under our Constitution, have an extra special responsibility to do so. We rely upon them.

Trump has been laying on bullshit for so long we are literally buried in it. The rest of the world is up to its eyeballs in it.

We screwed up big time by electing human excrement, but even a sinner deserves a break now and then. How about giving us one? Just level with us. Tell us the truth. Screw your ratings. Screw your bottom line. Screw your corporate masters. This has been going on far too long.

We are in danger. Real danger - not the North Korea bullshit danger that you were all reporting on. North Korea didn't back down from anything today. North Korea was just pulling our chain. The real headline in North Korea is U.S. Armed Forces staying the course like they've been doing for over 50 years. Not exactly new.

The real news that has been and continues to be eluding our press is that we have a criminal in the White House, a man who has betrayed our country for profit and self promotion. The real news is that this man is part of a continuing, successful invasion and infiltration of our country under the leadership of President Putin.

There are numerous subplots to this story, but they all go back to Russia - money laundering, racketeering, prostitution, enabling domestic terrorists, fomenting political and social unrest.

Sound extreme? You bet it does because our press has not been reporting on it with the dogged attention it deserves. Trump initially failed to condemn the Nazis and the KKK and the alt right in Charlotttesville.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMQWJDVg8PAHe criticized industry leaders who refused to work with him, but refused to say anything negative about white supremacists just as he has refused to say anything negative about Putin. We've got a president who failed to call out Nazis.

I know some people who would find that strange. They would probably be taking to the streets over it.

Yesterday, Trump reluctantly made a totally insincere statement about the white supremacists and the KKK and the Nazis. He didn't take any questions when he finished. He squirmed the whole time - probably taking a dump in his pants. The press should have thrown their shoes at him.

Later that night our Shitter-In-Chief said he was unfairly treated by the press and Tweeted a picture of his train smashing into the press.

If that weren't enough, he also re-Tweeted a post by a right wing extremist who has been admitted to the press room in the White House.

So much for the sincerity of Trump's criticism of the Nazis yesterday - just more bullshit. Speaking of white extremists, Trump has brought them into the White House. They are on his staff.

Here's a picture of Sebastian Gorka posing with his wife Katharine Gorka at Trump's Inaugural Ball wearing the medal of Vitezi Rend. Not familiar with Vitezi Rend - look it up.

Why hasn't Trump been held accountable for all this? Ask the Congressional leadership of the GOP.

Why hasn't Congress acted? Ask the press. Trump has attacked the press all along and they might just be afraid to take him on.

So where can you go for honest news? Try Twitter. There are patriots on Twitter from just about every political persuasion taking on Trump everyday. There are also a lot of Russian infiltrators on Twitter. It's not always easy to tell the difference, but it's doable if you work at it. Here's someone I just discovered today because another poster re-Tweeted his thread.

Start reading about Robert Mueller and his investigation. He's investigating all this on our behalf. He's an honest man. He deserves our support.

What can you do? Call your representatives and tell them this has gone on way too long. A young woman was murdered in Charlottesville just four days ago. This needs to stop now. There is no place for hate in the U.S.A.

Saturday, August 12, 2017

In 1923, Adolph Hitler attempted to lead a rebellion. He failed. He was arrested and sentenced to prison. The failed rebellion became known as the Beer Hall Putsch.

Hitler eventually rose to power and the world suffered for it. Today we have a Hitler surrogate in the United States. He is a man who was compromised and recruited by Russia's President, Vladimir Putin.

Trump is our very own Moscovian Candidate. A criminal opportunist who has betrayed his country for economic reasons. A psychopath who has resonated with other psychopaths across our country.

Unlike Hitler, who actually led his attempt at rebellion, Trump has allowed proxies to stand in for him. Today Trump's putsch took place in Charlottesville, Virginia without Trump.

American NAZIs and the KKK and other white supremacists marched. They came armed with assault weapons and clubs and shields.

Last night we saw a torchlight parade in Charlottesville that could have been shot by Leni Riefenstahl.

To be clear, we have had NAZIs in the United States before. Prior to World War II the NAZI Party was organized and held rallies and even retreats for adults and children.

Today's NAZIs are part of a political coalition that is a significant part of Trump's base. Trump is so totally compromised. He can't afford to alienate his base and he can't cross Putin. When he finally speaks about this, he says nothing.

As I watch this on the TV, I am amazed by how vapid our reporting has become. Instead of castigating the demonstrators, we have an assortment of commentators whose lack of clear condemnation only serves to normalize this type of behavior.

In the last week we have literally been barraged by Donald Trump. His threats against North Korea and Venezuela only added to our confusion and anxiety. We allowed ourselves to be distracted by this. We did not focus on what truly needs to be focused on - the criminal investigation of Trump and an emerging coup.

A recent poll suggested that over half of Trump's supporters would not object if Trump said he needed to suspend the 2018 elections. I don't think we have ever suspended elections. What is happening now?

Steve Bannon is the White House Chief Strategist. He was the executive chair of Breitbart News. He is a darling of the alt right. He has been promoting nationalist propaganda. Here he is with Dinesh D’Souza in the White House. He's promoting D'Souza's latest book - The Big Lie. The book compares Democrats to NAZIs.

D'Souza was convicted of making illegal campaign contributions. Another picture shows him in the White House with Sebastian Lukács Gorka. Gorka is deputy assistant to the President. Gorka has actual ties to NAZIs and has a questionable Ph.D.

It's not okay for White House officials to promote books, but Bannon and Gorka have no problem doing so. So much of what goes on in the Trump administration is illegal and unethical. Trump began dismantling our government from day one. He has appointed incompetents to his cabinet, with the notable exceptions of Mattis and McMaster.

Trump will be completely exposed if Muller proceeds with his investigation. People will go to jail. If the Democrats win back the House in 2020 they will Impeach Trump. What's a traitor to do?

Trump is not about to go to jail. I have no doubt he would take the country down first, but that is where he is headed unless he does something dramatic like suspend elections and take his coup public. In order to do that, he needs popular support and that's what Charlottesville is all about - an emerging army of Brown Shirts.

I don't know if Trump can pull this off. He has the Republican Congress, but he has also been willing to alienate them recently by attacking Mitch McConnell. Why? Is he abandoning them to form his own party? He's had his own private security force all along. Now he just might be desperate enough to take the final leap. What has he got to lose?

A miraculous savior is not going to stop this. George Washington is not going to come back from his grave and clean out D.C. Our best hopes are Robert Mueller and James Mattis. Robert can prosecute under the rule of law and James can prevent the misuse of our military, but they are operating within the law and could get swept up along with everyone else.

Now's the time to ask what you can do for your country. Sitting on your butt and burying your head in the sand ain't gonna fix this. Start demanding action from our Congress. Either that or resign yourself to the possibility of living in a dictatorship.

Friday, August 11, 2017

My mother died of breast cancer. It wasn't nice. She had a radical mastectomy, but the cancer had spread.

My brother was a doctor and she would talk to him. She needed somebody she trusted to talk to. My father had died some years earlier.

My mother was in pain and near the end it wasn't very nice. There were other things that contributed to her death, but the cancer was her final killer. Before she died she asked my brother, "why me?"

"Why me?" is a question a lot of people ask at critical times. I think it is short for "Why is this happening to me? I obeyed the law. I went to church. I was a good whatever. I did what I was supposed to."

"Why not you mom?", is what my brother responded. He was saying cancer isn't personal - it happens - some folks get it, some don't.

Disease isn't about being punished. Some people claim life is a disease because we all die in the end. I'm not sure my brother would have agreed with this.

My brother died years later. Parkinson's got him. My sister died after that. COPD and Congestive Heart Failure took her. I have another sister who is 12 years older than me. She seems fine. I had prostate cancer a few years back and had surgery - so far, so good.

Lotsa' death - life is fulla' death. It's gonna' catch ya'. My mother lived in a house full of smokers. My brother was a Radiologist. I don't know if that contributed to his Parkinson's. My sister smoked her entire life. I'm guessing that led to the COPD and CHF.

Our environments can kill us. There's a lot we can do about our environments. Some people get this - some don't. Some people believe in second hand smoke, exposure to radiation, global warming - some don't. Ignoring our environment is passive suicide.

We can kill ourselves. We can do it in a flash or we can do it over the course of decades. Smoking is active suicide.

Stress is a bigly killer and a lot of us live stressful lives. Work, religion, education, politics, relationships, expectations, anticipations - all that can be stressful.

Some of that is external and how we internalize it contributes to our stress levels. Our expectations and anticipations are internal processes that greatly affect our levels of stress. Our expectations and anticipations are affected by our intelligence and our spirituality (nothing to do with organized religion).

WTF? This is the Church of the Holy Moly. What has this got to do with Donald Trump? Why you wastin' our time. This is pissin' me off.

Hey, adjust your expectations! Stop anticipating! Chill! Think!

Donald Trump is the result of choices we made. The folks who voted for him were engaging in active suicide.

He didn't just appear out of nowhere. We allowed our political environment to get out of hand and this is what happened - passive suicide.

Get it MF? We either actively and/or passively did this to ourselves. So what you gonna' do about it? Yeah you!

The country has been hijacked. Greedy opportunists who were/are willing to commit treason sold us out and betrayed us. Follow the money - the money from Russia and China and see where it takes you. Follow the money that comes from good ole' American billionaires too.

In the meantime, we need to stop fighting among ourselves. There ain't a lot we can do about the brain eating zombies who support and defend this aberration. Those of us who haven't been infected can work together to deal with this or we can turn on each other.

Everybody out there ain't yo friend either, even if they say they are. Yeah, some people are whacked out trolls looking to fuck you up. Some are agent provocateur's.

Sorry, but we lost the brochure that tells you who the good guys are. You have to figure that one out for yourself. Here's a clue - start by assuming that anybody who does not advocate for removing Donald Trump is a brain eating zombie.

You don't have to take out the zombies. Ignore them and move on. What we need to do is use the most powerful weapons we have to rid ourselves of the opportunist traitors. Vote. Lobby your elected representatives. Get involved.

When you do vote, make sure you vote affectively. Don't get distracted by the bogus candidates who want to syphon your vote off. Don't waste your vote on bullshit alternative party candidates who are secretly working with the opportunist traitors.

In the end, you ain't gonna' like no fascism - no siree Bob. Dem fascists gonna' fuck you over every time.

I can tell you what ain't gonna' set you free: Libertarianism; The Tea Party; The Republican Party; Scientology; any religious fundamentalism; Ayn Rand; a host of others; and any of the isms.

If you haven't tried any of these, I suggest you do: 1984; Brave New World; and Friendly Fascism. Friendly Fascism is hard to find. It's worth the effort.